Tyto Online brings real learning to a futuristic virtual world while keeping the essence of what makes games fun and addicting. We are creating an educational MMORPG -- using quest-based learning with a story line, and learning as part of the actual game mechanics, not just layered on top of it. Despite great innovations, Earth’s decline was not abated, and the planet eventually became a wasteland. Humans began leaving the only home they had ever known; billions of people have already been evacuated in large ships called Pathfinders, which hold tens of thousands of people in a cryogenically preserved state for the voyage. The player awakens from cryosleep as they arrive to this new world after having been recruited into Tyto Academy, which only accepts students with the utmost potential. As a new Tytonian, they must learn everything they can, explore the new worlds, and research Earth’s past in a mission to one day restore Earth.
Many of the quests will take place within the biodomes that the Tyto Foundation set up to preserve Earth’s life. The students will assist the scientists and researchers as they seek to sustain these ecosystems. Students will learn ecosystem differences, change environmental variables, and complete quests within these biodomes that will lead to learning ecological concepts. For example, reports say plants in the Rainforest Biodome are turning brown and shriveling so they are asked to solve the problem. They discover the humidity is off and adjust it to the optimal level for the biome. Or they might be asked to figure out why ants seem to be acting very strange and then dying. As it turns out, a fungus had turned them into zombies! After finishing the quest line, we’ll provide information and photos about how it really happens on Earth, too!